we take a look at leading republicans discussed as 2012 presidential candidates. the president is ahead of might tell romitt romney. let s move to sarah palin, leading by a whopping 22 points, obama is 55, palin is 33. what do you make of these leads? how do you interpret them? well, i think if the economy is not doing well, almost any major republican whose last name isn t palin would have a fair chance at least a fair chance of beating him. but the thing is, with sarah palin, it s almost like a no-fly zone. her negatives are so, so, so high. and the nbc wall street judicial poll it was 28% positive, 50% negative and 20% neutral. in the gallup poll wibt was 40 favorable, 52. but here is one way to look at it. in the gallup numbers, 81% of republicans viewed sarah palin positively. but it was only 30% among
three kids will squeeze on to that desk easily. the bench attached to the desk. it s designed for two and in an ideal world that s the way it will be in ma allowy. but this is something anyone can do. and look, i know it s a tough year for people to make contributions and if you re tapped out, don t even think about this. other people will step up for this. i know a few people who don t need anything. what they re going to get from me for christmas is one of these desks delivered in their name delivered to a school in malawi for $48 and it s going to be the best gift they ll get this year. and what you re doing in addition to helping the education, you found, what was it, a hardware store? what i didn t want to do is go to to some supply house in new jersey, buy desks, ship them over. if i was going to spend money, i want the money to be spent within the malawi economy. so i found someone there, with
leading a generic republican candidate, as you look ahead to the election by about three points. a lot of people find the president very personally likable there. this poll shows 74% of people say he has strong family values. do you think that is what keeps him out in front? well, i think he s i mean, right now, you can call it tied or one way or the other, but the thing is, the fact is that they haven t given most voters haven t given up on him personally you know, about 35%, 38% view him hostilely. and then of the others, they still like him. they think he s well intentioned. they re not wild about everything that s happened. but that helps prop him up some and keeps things from getting worse. but so much of his fortunes are really tied to the economy, how the economy performs over the next two years, what happens to the unemployment rate, and his fate more than anything else is tethered to that economy. okay. let s do some matchups here as
know is over technically but a lot of people still feel it. this has been going on now for almost thee years. people have been putting money aside, make sure they get through, hold on to their money and so forth. you might call this pent up demand. people have put off purchases for different types of things. they now feel more freedom to get out and pend. you said recession is over. it is? technically it ended in 2009. we ve still got over 15 million unemployed people. the otr people have had pay cuts. we ve so the of got two economies right now. we ve got the mainstream economy is bouncing back and we re seeing more and more signs of that. and we ve got a lot of people, though, who are still disenfranchised. and that s a huge group of people and that is going to be the big question going into 2011 and 2012 is how quickly do those people rejoin the mainstream economy? i deviated somewhat because i wanted to get into the economy. tiffanys, sales are up.